Alexander Dobrindt has been the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure since December 2013. Previously, he was the Executive Secretary of the Christian Social Union (CSU) of Bavaria from 2009. He has been a Member of the German National Parliament (Bundestag) since 2002 where he was Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Economic and Labour Affairs from 2005 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he was Economic Policy Spokesman of the CSU Parliamentary Group and from November 2008 to February 2009 Chairman of the Education and Research Working Group of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group.